My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
